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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2022
- This is a tool-assisted speedrun of the game Hollow Knight in the category 0Geo. The goal of this category is to complete the game as quickly as possible, but without picking up any geo. The TAS was created by entering every input to the game, frame by frame, then running the game with a special tool known as libTAS that allows for the same inputs to produce the same results (almost) every time. The run is on patch 1221 and also has the restriction of not using any major glitches; it does make use of several minor glitches, but it deliberately limits the scope of how it uses one of the more powerful minor glitches, wall cling storage, to only cases that are readily achievable by humans.
If you'd prefer to watch an unedited version of this video (without the inputs display and geo dodging highlights), you can see that here: • [TAS] Hollow Knight 0 ... .
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to ConstructiveCynicism, the creator of the Any% NMG TAS, both for allowing me to use the Any% inputs for several of the early rooms (before the route diverges), as well as for general advice on strats and how to use libTAS
Thanks to DemoJameson, who developed some of the HK-specific tooling we use to make TASing possible
Thanks to Kilaye, the creator of libTAS, the black magic software that somehow wrangles a Unity game into a mostly deterministic state
Thanks to Blue, the current human world record holder in the category, for cheering me on and providing some feedback
Thanks also to all of the other members of the Hollow Knight TAS Discord who provided feedback, advice and encouragement
Links:
CC's Any% NMG TAS: • Hollow Knight Any% NMG...
Blue's WR run of 0Geo for 1221: / 1145542092
Krythom's Any% NMMS TAS (if you'd like to see what major glitches can do): • [TAS] Hollow Knight An...
Hollow Knight TAS Discord: / discord
Technical Notes:
TASing is a time-consuming process, particularly in a game like Hollow Knight, which has quite a lot of RNG and whose RNG is extremely volatile. What this means is that, normally, you can't make any changes whatsoever to prior portions of a TAS without completely invalidating all of the RNG for the rest of the run. To work around this issue, this TAS is built using a modification to the game code that allows for preserving a snapshot of the RNG for a given room, then restoring it on the fly during the playback. This makes it possible to make adjustments to prior scenes without having to redo the entire TAS. All random sequences within rooms were generated by using in-game rng manip techniques and this tooling was solely used to allow for edits without breaking later rooms.
The TAS was also run on a forked version of libTAS due to some issues with memory management in Unity causing it to crash late in the run; the change I made was to increase a buffer size to allow for HK's heavily fragmented memory mapping. If anyone wants to sync this TAS, feel free to contact me on the Discord (link above) and I can provide the movie (inputs) file, the tooling that I used, as well as instructions on how to get it to sync.
To address any questions about collisions that I've seen come up in other TAS videos, there are several instances in this video where it looks like the knight should have been hit by enemies or projectiles, including some frames where the knight appears to be touching geo. There are two factors that cause this. The first is that the hitboxes used by the game are generally substantially smaller than the sprites, giving some margin for error when you play as a human. The other is that the game only checks collisions at 50 frames per second, even though the graphics are updating at 100 frames per second. This means that the knight can intersect with hitboxes for single frames if they're timed to be between the physics checks.
![[TAS] Banishing the ghosts of Hallownest](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nmhNE70eT54/mqdefault.jpg)
![[TAS] Banishing the ghosts of Hallownest](/img/tr.png)
![[TAS] Hollow Knight: Spelless True Ending](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JlQm9ScOTe8/mqdefault.jpg)
This is so insanely cool... I especially enjoyed the part between 0:00 and 44:09
That was my favourite part too!
Agreed
Yooo no way same!
I didn't think someone would have the same favorite part as me
I didn't really like the last part too much...
I just love seeing Hornet fights on any speedrun but especially a TAS because she's all like "prove to me you are worthy" then proceeds to get the absolute snot beat out of her into a corner lmaoo
LES GO WE SAVED HERRA GRUB
This is so good! I love the input display and the little slow-mo replays on the really tricky geo dodges. Awesome work!
За невероятный тас отгружаем тонну любви и уважения
Отличная работа, ждём следующий ТАС
stASS
Ну ты красавчик! Я вообще игру не осилил. Дошел до Путь боли и психанул. Удачи и развития канала!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Лайк дома!
Its a very nice tas without the wallcling storage.
holy SHIT, this is incredible!!! the geo dodges were absolutely insane and i am BEYOND impressed, especially since this is your first. im very excited to see what else you'll do in the future!
Станислав, спасибо вам за такой замечательный ран!
Потрясающий TAS! Это моя любимая игра и так приятно смотреть такую кропотливую работу, час пролетел незаметно. Спасибо тебе, всех благ
За хороший TAS хорошему человеку хороший комментарий! ))
Coming from BlueSR. This TAS is awesome, well done.
absolutely insane, congrats on such a cool achievement
It's a tas.
(I might be misunderstanding what your saying so please tell me if I am)
@@thecomedybros1162 I’m congratulating them on putting together this super cool TAS, cause it takes so long to make!
@@erenspace9628 Yeah that clears that up, and your right, this is amazing. Have a good day!
thank you, we are waiting for wounds without spells.
Came from the BlueSR video to drop a thumbs up and some love. This run is nutty and I really like the geo dodge edits. =)
holy crap i just watched your spelless TE vid and thought about how cool it'd be to watch a tas do a 0 geo run, and then i get this in my recommended 😅
Love the inputs scrolling on the side mate :)
this was incredible! The replays and input display were awesome!
Hi from Karmik)
Best TASS I-ve ever seen. Thank you!!!
I didn’t actually realise you had a TH-cam channel until recently, lol. You’ve earned yourself a subscription and a suggestion:
0 Geo run, but wayward compass is equipped (although after seeing the multiverse time travel, I dunno)
This is really amazing, Hollow Knight is of the my favorite games, so I was enjoyed while watching this video, thank you so much for your amazing work!
Insanely cool, good luck!
За титаническую работу и невероятный тас отгружаем тонну любви и уважения льву
Really like the slowmo geo dodges keep it up
OMEGA cool TAS. From start to end. ggwp
Good luck with your upcoming spelless project! :)
Here from blueSR, awesome work mate, everybody likes that!
From Karmik with love, Great Job!
This is really cool :) thanks for making this!
Awesome work bro! Thx a lot!
Damn, so underrated tas run and great work.
Karmik Team here.
Tnx man, you did very good work
Такой красоты давно не видел! Спасибо! Удачи в развитии канала! Красавчик
hey Jarlyk, I am a big fan of your videos! I know that making a TAS run is really complicated and time consuming, but I love your full run videos... I completed HK after 300hours on PS4 and PC.. The PC version is easier somehow... Keep up the great work and videos!! Hawkmacus (Alien Isolation Speedrunner)
Amazing speedrun. Cant w8 to see ur spellless TAS run!
THIS IS SO GOOD
Great tas and great editing.
Станислав, вы великий человек, просто герой спидрунов, вы провели великую миссию, ждём новых ваших подвигов в новой части, честь вам!
all these poor bugs get their asses slapped by something and when they turn around they're already gone.
imagine the aftermath after the game and some random passerby just sees a bunch of geo lying around
Menderbug deserves a tip for all their hard work
Yoooo the Crystal Hunter manipulation was SICK.
Great TAS
Стас лучший спидранер в мире, это база
beautiful TAS , thank you
This is so mad cool. Hello from Karmik 😌
This is so cool! Thx for your work!
Вагон лайков от Коалы
Holy god this was amazing no words also a quick question Why the knight dosent vibrate ? (wallclimb storage abuse)
I mean he does wallclimb storage but it just done by do the brrrrrr got it?
My goal with this TAS was to limit WCS to cases done by humans and, specifically, only the relatively easy cases that involve elevator and gate wcs. The grinding noise you can hear in CC's Any% TAS is a technique known as K-WAT (Krythom Wiggle Acceleration Tactics), which is able to achieve higher wcs speeds by repeatedly clinging the imaginary wall 50 frames per second, but at the downside of playing the sound effect each time. Since that's not even close to human viable, I chose not to use that. The most ambitious wcs here is probably the underplat chain into a jump in the rafters room, but this is commonly done by human runners in 106%. The main one I omitted that's regularly done by humans is a wcs across the acid to Monomon, which shows up in top tier Any%.
nice TAS great job
Amazing work, awesome TAS!
Wow this tas guy really have an experience in gaming
That's awesome! I love the idea of the input display and replays. GG!
Incredible. Very nice to watch!
Great job making that TAS!
incredible job!!
It's sooooo freaking amazing! True masterpiece!
awesome work, bro!
Slow mo rly cool, nice work
Probably took like 6 months to do. Awesome job :D
Красава, чувак, охуенный ТАС, я 44 минуты 9 секунд на нём залипал, keep doing what you doing, bro!
Спасибо Стасу!
nice job man !
자주 관랍하지만 마지막은 첫인상이랑 같아. 수고하셨습니다
Awesome artwork piece
Amazing visuals btw
nice run and great job, thank you.
Pride of the Anthill!
Great job, man!!
Incredible! Great tas ;)
Night is comin'. Ur content has been stealed for THIEFunity. With great respects, hapiness isn't about money, hapiness about SPEED.
Insane run!
Great job. Thanks for it
What's actually impressive is that the final time was exactly 40 minutes.
Thx. Incredible run. And hello from carmicKoala ;)
thanks, super TAS goes in one breath, waiting for TAS without magic
Epic TAS
Very good job!
Nice. Good luck !
отгружаем тонну любви и уважения
Great work keep it up!
DemoJameson, carrying celeste and HK :)
GG WP Man
This famous hitless player actually just used invincibility
This is beyond impressive!
гениальный стас
Great job, this TAS is incredible. Hello from KarmikKoala
Thank you so
Perfect job♥️
Great job!!!
nice run
This is so good!
Я хоть и прошёл все пантеоны и стальную душу, но то что сотворил ты - это за гранью реальности :)
This is really cool !!!
Отличная работа!!!! Лучший)
great work ty
This is amazing, it would be really cool if you could do the ismas tear route fireb0rn made a video about eventually
Hi From KarmikKoala viewers
Отлично сделал. Ждем еще!
nice tas and showcase
Очень качественно сделал, спасибо!
it so beautiful, I cried